Depression is a common mental disease, mainly manifested as depression, slow thinking and so on. Anxiety and depression are often accompanied by depression patients usually have anxiety, anxiety patients often have depression. What are the symptoms of depression?
1. Slow thinking
Patients have slow thinking and association, slow response, blocked thinking, and consciously 'brain is like a rusty machine' and 'brain is like a layer of paste'. Clinically, it can be seen that the active speech is reduced, the speed of speech is obviously slowed down, the voice is low, and it is difficult to answer. In serious cases, the communication cannot be carried out smoothly.
2. Depressed mood
The main manifestations were significant and lasting depression, depression and pessimism. Those who are light are unhappy, unhappy, and interested in less, while those who are heavy are miserable, pessimistic and desperate, living like a year, and living like death. The depressive mood of typical patients has the rhythm change of heavy morning and light night. On the basis of low mood, patients will have a reduced self-evaluation, a sense of uselessness, hopelessness, helplessness and worthlessness, often accompanied by self accusation and self guilt. People with severe depression will have delusions of guilt and hypochondriasis, and some patients may have hallucinations.
3. Cognitive impairment
It is believed that cognitive impairment exists in patients with depression. It is mainly manifested in memory decline, attention disorder, response time extension, increased alertness, poor abstract thinking ability, learning difficulties, poor language fluency, spatial perception, eye hand coordination and thinking flexibility. Cognitive impairment leads to social dysfunction and long-term prognosis.
4. Decrease of will activity
When you have decreased willpower, you should watch carefully. Because patients with depression have a significant and lasting inhibition of will activity. Clinical manifestations are slow behavior, passive life, laziness, do not want to work, do not want to contact with people around, often sitting alone, or lying in bed all day, living alone, alienating relatives and friends, avoiding social contact.
When it is serious, even eating, drinking and other physiological needs and personal hygiene are ignored. It is unkempt and untidy, and even develops into silence, immobility and non eating, which is called 'depressive stupor'. However, after careful mental examination, the patients still show pain and depression. Patients with anxiety may have symptoms such as restlessness, finger grasping, rubbing hands and feet, or pacing up and down. Severe patients are often accompanied by negative suicidal ideas or behaviors. Negative and pessimistic thoughts, self accusation and self guilt, lack of self-confidence can germinate the idea of despair. They think that 'ending one's own life is a kind of relief', and 'living one's own life in the world is redundant', and will make suicide attempt develop into suicide behavior. This is the most dangerous symptom of depression, so we should be alert.
5. Somatic symptoms
In the body performance mainly has some sleep disorders, and often feel fatigue, anorexia, but also with weight loss, constipation symptoms. Pain in any part of the body, hyposexual desire, impotence, amenorrhea, etc. Body complaints of body discomfort can involve various organs, such as nausea, vomiting, panic, chest tightness, sweating, etc. Symptoms of autonomic dysfunction are also common. The main complaint of pre disease physical disease is usually aggravated.
What foods can treat depression
1. Deep sea fish
According to people's research, people who live by the sea all the year round are generally happier. In fact, the reason for this phenomenon is not only because the sea is refreshing, but also because people who live by the sea can often eat fish.
2, bananas
Because there are a large number of alkaloids in bananas that are helpful for human health, this substance has an inspiring and confidence enhancing effect, and bananas are the main source of tryptophan and vitamin B6, which can build the brain to make serotonin.
3. Whole wheat bread
Because whole wheat bread contains a lot of carbohydrates, and this substance can help increase serotonin. So our experts think that it's very scientific for some people to use such foods as pasta and snacks as antidepressants.
4, pumpkin
Pumpkin is a kind of common vegetable in our life. Eating a little pumpkin can make people's mood number, mainly because it contains vitamin B6 and iron.
5, spinach
After a long-term study by some related experts, once the body lacks folate, it will lead to a decrease in serotonin in the brain, leading to depression. Spinach is the most famous food rich in folate.